What's In Store for Us...

Well, I really haven't written in awhile-I blame that both on our hectic lives right now and my laziness.

So let me catch you up. Eric and I have still been having a good time here in Clarksville. Since he's been clearing from post, he gets home most days around 2pm, so we have had a lot of time together.

On the 2nd, Eric had the Promotion Board. This was pretty much a job interview, promotion, and multi-question exam...all rolled into one. If he passed, he would be noted as promotable--which means once we're in Germany for a few months, he would be promoted to E5 (Sergeant). He has been studying nonstop for weeks upon weeks. I've been quizzing him on packets and packets of information over all sorts of information: Army programs, rituals, laws, weapons, you name it. He was pretty nervous the night before, but I knew he had the facts down. (I even had some memorized myself, from repeating them so often.) He of course passed...with flying colors! They even said he was the best of the day, and a "perfect" soldier. I was so proud! And he was incredibly relieved.

Now, Christmas seems to be right around the corner, and the Army finally gave us an OK to buy our tickets back to Washington. Our winter break schedule will look something like this:


The Army was going to pack & ship all of our household goods on the 21st-22nd (which is why we are having different flights home). But of course, in true Army form, the schedule just changed and now they are getting all of our stuff on the 17th...and its too late to change our flights...of course.

Here's an explanation for our trip to St. Louis. The Army ships our car to Germany for free, and even pays for us to get to the closest shipping port. The closest one to us is St. Louis, Missouri. So we will spend the night of the 4th in a hotel in Nashville (since we'll have already vacated our apartment in Clarksville), we'll drive the 300 miles to St. Louis on the 5th and have them ship good ol' Rita. We've decided to do a little tourism that night (since we'll probably never be in that town again) and then we fly off to Germany on the morning of the 6th.

It's going to be a crazy month, and definitely some hectic days here and there. But we are soo very anxious to get home and see our families after so long. Especially since we'll be moving even farther away from them.

As for now, I need to figure out packing...didn't we just unpack?!

See you all soon!!